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When most businesses buy their first ever tractor unit, they reasonably might be expected to opt for a fairly standard model or perhaps even a second-hand truck. Cornish operator Brunel chose an alternative route in ordering the top-of-the-range 16-litre 625hp Actros 1 – one of a limited edition run of just 400 and just 35…

Sludge can build up anywhere – that’s why Sutton Tankers’ trucks have to have excellent manoeuvrability as they have a number of trucks on contract to Yorkshire Water transporting the stuff around. So, after a full-on trial of Volvo’s FMX in tridem configuration, Suttons Tankers has now taken delivery of 14 new Volvo FMXs, the…

Despite not buying any Volvo trucks ‘for many a year’, Dean Willshee, Owner of Willshees Waste & Recycling has started to order the Swedish brand once more with three trucks just delivered and a further two on the way. The Burton-based company’s recent deliveries are two FM 8×4 rigids and one FH Globetrotter 6×2 tractor…

A top-powered 510hp 8×4 MAN TGS is heading for the valleys to the door of South Wales haulier M&M Greene of Gorslas, near Llanelli. It will be involved in delivering bulk loads of sand and gravels to and moving spoil and muck-away from local projects and building sites. M&M Greene’s new TGS 32.510 is one…

Nobody wants to wait months for a truck, so being able to get a brand new, bodied tipper in such a short time frame was important to Barrachander Quarry boss Calum McCrae. Of course, the trucks have to perform as well. Since McCrae has been so impressed with the reliability of the 8×4 Mercedes-Benz Arocs…

Just one look at the pictures and you can tell how much work went into the specification of the Volvo FH. Everything looks right – built to do a job of work.  This comes as no accident, as the supplying Volvo dealer appeared to have pulled out all the stops to get it right. As…

Hereford-based aggregate, concrete, and landscaping products suppliers Radbournes have increased their IVECO fleet over recent months by taking delivery of another 8×4 Stralis X-WAY tipper and one Eurocargo 4×2 tipper. Coinciding with Radbournes’ 40th anniversary IVECO forms the mainstay of its aggregates collection and delivery business as it moves away from its solus fleet with…

It’s not every day you stumble across an R-Series 8×4 tipper, especially not a 540hp model.  What’s sure is that it stands a good chance at the traffic light grand prix with that power and that the driver will be wearing a smile at all times. Still, if the driver is also the managing director,…

Following last week’s news of a 340k DAF XF Wrecker going to Alpha Recovery, this week we get the news of a new £350k DAF CF recovery truck conversion delivered to North-west truck recovery specialist, Jackson’s Recovery. The 80-tonne DAF CF 530 eight-wheeler is the company’s new fleet flagship truck and will sit alongside their…

It’s some shopping list that gets the price of your new truck up to 340,000. That’s what commercial vehicle recovery specialist, Alpha Recovery in Northumberland has invested in their new wrecker – a 150-tonne GTW DAF XF eight-wheeler with Super Space Cab and recovery equipment from Boniface Engineering. That’s not all on their list, however….

If you want to check out what’s new in the world of plant and quarrying while sitting at your desk, then check out the Hillhead Digital exhibition & seminars where you will see DAF showing off their construction range on the 30th and 31st March. Hillhead Digital will enable people from across the construction sector…

Every company has differing reasons to buy a truck.  Ground clearance is a great reason if you run a fleet of trucks on demolition work.  Up until now, we’d never heard of the size of the front panel to write your company name on as being key.  Still, if everything else about the truck and…

It’s a great-looking truck. Blinged to the eyeballs, the Mercedes Arocs 3248 should turn heads wherever it goes.  Jason Ward, owner of H&C Haulage must like his son in law, Rhys Ford.  Not only has he provided work for the 29-year old in the family business, but also has given him the ‘Muck Monkey’ to…

With local tipping work it’s all about payload, payload, payload.  Alongside dealer service, Totnes, Devon-based Jeremy Bishop Haulage says that the extra payload the Iveco Stralis X-Way is giving them is the main reason for buying Iveco. This means that the company has doubled its IVECO fleet by taking delivery of two Stralis X-WAY 26-tonne…

Operators of Scania 8-wheel tippers or double drive 6×4 tractor units of tippers will have the chance to specify a new truck where one of the drive axles can disengage and lift to save up to 6% on fuel. Other savings for the operator can arise through reduced tyre wear and improved turning circle efficiency. …

Saving fuel and saving water at the same time – that’s a proud boast by the operators of their new ‘Tridem’ Mercedes Arocs 3258. Enviro-Clean Scotland’s latest, eight-wheeled Mercedes-Benz sewer-cleaning truck is a ‘green giant’ in more than one sense – as well as sporting the company’s distinctive verdant colour scheme, it is also reducing…

Here’s a good test of a truck and the availability of new trucks.  Leedale buys two Mercedes Arocs 8×4 tipper grabs and two from a competing manufacturer (who shall remain nameless here). Some ten months on, two more trucks are needed and the deal goes to Mercedes-Benz.  The trucks themselves must have played a large…

Two specialist Volvo FM crane trucks have been delivered by Volvo Truck dealer MC Truck & Bus.  Whilst the trucks are fitted with standard 460HP D13K engines, the build looks complicated. One of the FM trucks has a Tridem 8×4 layout – this means that there are three axles at the rear of the truck…

Mercedes-Benz trucks are taking over at Bristol-based heavy plant and machinery mover, Plant Speed.  Thanks to a concerted effort at Mercedes Truck dealer, City West Commercials, more than half the 16-strong fleet are from the German manufacturer. The latest Mercedes to join the fleet is a new 32-tonne Mercedes Arocs 3246.  With a flat-floored BigSpace…